Leatherman=USA

My Leatherman bought in 1999 is a sideclip. All that I could afford back then. Says USA on the pliers.
 
I would also assume the corkscrew on some (at least earlier) models to be made in Europe, too.
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I doubt the Leatherman corkscrews were made by Victorinox. Victorinox corkscrews work. I own one Leatherman that has a corkscrew. I think it was called the Flair, but the tool is not labled. Its corckscrew is only good for taking core samples of the cork. Victorinox would have done it better.
 
eb07 said:
Leatherman "proudly endorses" anti-gun candidates. I will never buy a Leatherman again. I don't care where it is made.
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Agreed. I have owned Leathermans, the original PST when that first came out, and a Surge. Both I consider excellent and I have put them to the test in my line of work and they haven't failed me.

But I love my firearms too, and I heard from several places that Leather does support anti-gun.....things.....I try to place my money where I feel it won't hurt me elsewheres.

I ain't going to buy a Gerber though - not as a good as a Leatherman imo, but hey, I'll use them if they keep giving them out to me. :D

Product Loyalty and Quality vs. Politics. Gah.
 
This kind of political purity is childish. First of all, Tim Leatherman, not the company, endorses candidates, not necessarily their anti-gun stance. Every candidate is a mix of positions, some of which are viable and some questionable.

Secondly, the company is an American company with American workers, many of whom may be far to the right of most of us, and considering the location, will own guns themselves for self-defense and recreation. Boycotting their work for an ambiguous position taken by the company's owner is hurting American jobs.

Go ahead and be political rigid, and send a few more jobs to China, although I would hope anyone that exercised over gun control would be at least as worried about our economy.

or you could buy products based on the quality and utility of the products themselves ... what a concept!
 
Until supported by evidence other than internet rumor, the whole idea of Leatherman grabbing our guns is complete bullshit.

IIRC, Leatherman was one of many outdoorsman related companies that endorsed Kerry/Edwards in the last election on the conservation issues. Not gun issues. Leatherman still exhibits at all the usual related event such as SHOT, AFAIK, Leatheman has not been put on the NRA's enemies list.

Of course, this doesn't keep the drama queens on the knife and gun forums from whining over the subject and acting like a bunch of brownshirts willing to purge the ranks of thought crimes.
 
parnass said:
According to this post, Leatherman plier head pieces are made in Mexico.
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As said in the letter.The plier pieces were bought by an american manufacturer who move to Mexico.They stayed with the original manufacturer than to go to the trouble of finding another source.
 
Yes, it does. He asked about China and they answered, "Currently we have processing done on some parts in Austria, Mexico and Switzerland." Do you think they may have been deliberately deceptive?

Perhaps they haven't realized yet that parts made in China have an occult power to cause tools to fall apart, living creatures to sneeze and cough, and the ozone hole to expand over Milwaukee.

What would you like us to do about their careless response?
 
As Mark Steyn wrote in a recent article, "... there is nothing so naïve as a reflexive cynic."

[shrug]
 
eb07 said:
Leatherman "proudly endorses" anti-gun candidates. I will never buy a Leatherman again. I don't care where it is made.
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You make it sound like he does this as a rule, as in: Any anti-gun candidate gets Tim Leatherman's endorsement. Gimme a break. :rolleyes: Hey, I'd endorse a puppy stomper over W., but that doesn't make me anti-puppies.
 
All the political infighting aside I can tell you that my older model Leatherman Wave is light years ahead of the "new" leatherman wave in terms of fit and finish. If I ever lose this one, I guess I'll try out a multi-tool by someone else, Leatherman just doesn't seem to be what it used to be.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
This kind of political purity is childish. First of all, Tim Leatherman, not the company, endorses candidates, not necessarily their anti-gun stance. Every candidate is a mix of positions, some of which are viable and some questionable.

Secondly, the company is an American company with American workers, many of whom may be far to the right of most of us, and considering the location, will own guns themselves for self-defense and recreation. Boycotting their work for an ambiguous position taken by the company's owner is hurting American jobs.

Go ahead and be political rigid, and send a few more jobs to China, although I would hope anyone that exercised over gun control would be at least as worried about our economy.

or you could buy products based on the quality and utility of the products themselves ... what a concept!
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Amen. I couldn't have said it better.
 
Triton said:
All the political infighting aside I can tell you that my older model Leatherman Wave is light years ahead of the "new" leatherman wave in terms of fit and finish. If I ever lose this one, I guess I'll try out a multi-tool by someone else, Leatherman just doesn't seem to be what it used to be.
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I did my thing on my old wave.Crocused the blades to a satin finish,(looks 110% better than that grind finish.)polished the sheet metal, I keep the pliers nice with a light scotchbright,buck knife oil, alchohol bath and air blast now and again.It serves me well.
I filed a nail nick in the large screwdriver and can opener blades because nobody's fingernails are that long to fit down there.It has to be going on four years now since Ive had this one. Can't say as I would be happy with a newer one. I'm not crazy for the locks. They have gotten sofisticated with the mechanism on the plier part. My old wave has the newer version when they put the springs into the pivots to keep it from rattleing. I didn't like it at first but now I do.
 
navihawk said:
My old wave has the newer version when they put the springs into the pivots to keep it from rattleing.
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navihawk, Could you please give me the date of manufacture. It's on the inside of the handles (see photos). Thanks in advance!

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navihawk said:
I did my thing on my old wave.Crocused the blades to a satin finish,(looks 110% better than that grind finish.)polished the sheet metal, I keep the pliers nice with a light scotchbright,buck knife oil, alchohol bath and air blast now and again.It serves me well.
I filed a nail nick in the large screwdriver and can opener blades because nobody's fingernails are that long to fit down there.It has to be going on four years now since Ive had this one. Can't say as I would be happy with a newer one. I'm not crazy for the locks. They have gotten sofisticated with the mechanism on the plier part. My old wave has the newer version when they put the springs into the pivots to keep it from rattleing. I didn't like it at first but now I do.
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Sounds really cool, that was my one complaint on the my Wave to, that it was darned near impossible to get the flathead screwdriver side out, then I discovered if you leave that little lanyard thing out, that it can be rotatated and will rotate the other blades out of the handle. I guess I could have tried loosening the whole thing up a bit so that the blades would come out more easily, but this way seems to work...
 
Triton said:
Sounds really cool, that was my one complaint on the my Wave to, that it was darned near impossible to get the flathead screwdriver side out, then I discovered if you leave that little lanyard thing out, that it can be rotatated and will rotate the other blades out of the handle. I guess I could have tried loosening the whole thing up a bit so that the blades would come out more easily, but this way seems to work...
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Yeah, just file a nick in the corner of the driver blade.Doesn't hurt the function.
 
Here's mine. I find this odd, if you can see it in the photos the blolsters that hold the screwdriver blades, one is smoothe and one is krinkle finish.

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